Citrus log from David Alves

Citrus log from David Alves

By David ALVES November 21, 2025
David ALVES

Ambassador Louis François since 2024

Created on

November 21, 2025

Recipe

Products used

Glucose syrup DE40 Pectin X58 Baking Powder PF Muscovado Light Sugar Invert Sugar Fish gelatin

Step 1 HAZELNUT SHORTBREAD

The ingredients
120g (22,6%) Butter
2g (0,2%) Salt
60g (11,3%) Hazelnut powder
60g (11,3%) Powdered sugar
50g (9,3%) Eggs
240g (45,3%) T55 flour
532g (100%) TOTAL
Process

Sand the butter and dry ingredients, add the eggs and crimp.
Roll out to 3 mm, cut into 4 cm x 54 cm rectangles and set aside in the freezer. Bake at 160°C between two Silpain® for 25 minutes.

Step 2 LEMON ICE CREAM

The ingredients
1012g (40,5%) Whole milk
126g (5%) 0% milk powder (Louis François)
280g (11,2%) Sugar
120g (4,8%) Dehydrated glucose syrup DE40 (LF)
552g (22,1%) 35% cream
400g (16%) Syracuse IGP lemon puree
10g (0,4%) Stab Pure (LF)
2500g (100%) TOTAL
Process

Place the milk in a saucepan, heat to 25°C, add the sugars and milk powder, then at 30°C add the cream, then at 45°C the Stab Pure with some of the sugar.
Pasteurize at 85°, blend and chill, then leave to mature at 4°C.
Add the lemon purée, mix, turbinate and line the drip tray, insert the mandarin sorbet and close with the sponge cake.

Step 3 LEMON CONFIT

The ingredients
125g (39,3%) Lemon purée
55g (17,3%) Pear purée
33g (10,4%) Sugar
55g (17,3%) Invert sugar (LF)
48g (15%) Dehydrated glucose syrup DE40 (LF)
2,2g (0,7%) Pectin NH nappage (LF)
318,2g (100%) TOTAL
Process

Heat purées with invert sugar and dehydrated glucose, at 40°C add pectin and sugar, cook to 60 Brix.
Set aside in a cool place for 12 hours and poach 3 mm thick on the shortbread crust.
Set aside in the freezer.

Step 4 SORBET PLEIN FRUIT MANDARIN GRAND MARNIER

The ingredients
1300g (69%) Mandarin puree
213g (11,3%) Sugar
40g (2,1%) Inulin (LF)
120g (6,4%) Dehydrated Glucose DE 25 (Louis François)
10g (0,5%) Super Neutrose (LF)
200g (10,7%) Grand Marnier
1883g (100%) TOTAL
Process

In a saucepan, heat the purée and water to 25°C and add the sugar, inulin and glucose, then at 45°C add the Super Neutrose with part of the sugar, pasteurize at 85°C, blend and place in a cooling cell, then leave to mature at 4°C.
Add the alcohol, blend, turbinate and garnish the small gutters to ¾ and close with the shortbread and lemon confit, set aside in the freezer.

Step 5

The ingredients
235g (19,9%) Egg yolks
47g (4%) Sugar
47g (4%) Dextrose (LF)
350g (29,7%) Egg whites
210g (17,8%) Sugar
145g (12,3%) Corn starch (LF)
145g (12,3%) T55 flour
QS Vanilla powder
1179g (100%) TOTAL
Process

Blanch the yolks with the sugar and dextrose, then beat the egg whites until stiff with the sugar.
Mix the two mixtures and add the starch, flour and vanilla powder.
Roll out to 1 cm and bake at 190°C for 8-10 minutes.
Cut into strips measuring 8 cm by 54 cm, and close the logs with the sponge cake.

Step 6 WHITE VELVET

The ingredients
265g (42,8%) Water
66g (10,6%) Sugar
220g (35,5%) Cacao Barry" Satin white chocolate
66g (10,6%) Cocoa butter
3g (0,5%) Pectin X58 (LF)
620g (100%) TOTAL
Process

Heat water to 40°C and add sucrose and pectin X58, raise to 85°C and pour over chocolate and cocoa butter.
Chill for 12 hours, use at 50°C.

Step 7 MARSHMALLOW CITRUS DECOR

The ingredients
40g (15,1%) Invert sugar (LF)
100g (37,6%) Sugar
32g (12,1%) Water
40g (15,1%) Invert sugar (LF)
7,5g (2,8%) Fish gelatin (LF)
45g (16,9%) Water for gelatin
1g (0,4%) Lime juice
QS Lime zest
265,5g (100%) TOTAL
Process

Make a syrup with the water, invert sugar and sugar at 114°C and pour over the other part of the invert sugar and the hydrated gelatine, swelling and adding the lime juice and zest.
Poach random-sized balls with an 8 mm tip onto a greased Silpat®, then sprinkle with crystal sugar.
Decorate with a few marshmallows.

Board

Following the correct method for preparing gelatin mass can make all the difference to the stability of your final product. To optimize your gelatin mass, be sure to follow the hydration and melting steps without boiling, and the setting time of at least 12h in advance in the refrigerator.

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